Linguist-Educator Exchange

E-Etymology and Syllable-S

Online options for attending this year’s Etymology! VI conference with Douglas Harper are now available in the online store. I will have two people running the Zoom room and conversation: one in the Zoom room joining us remotely, and one in the room room live with Doug and me. That way we can make sure you have a good view of anything being presented or shared. Please make sure to select the correct option when you sign up.

I’m also offering a totally unrelated resource — a researched monograph on syllables — delivered electronically as a PDF. This is not a published paper, just my academic writing, made available because I am sick to death of chipper people insisting that I just haven’t met the right syllable pedagogy yet. The field has known for nearly 50 years that syllables are hogwash; it’s time to stop perpetuating chipper lies because you feel good about them. Please. So here’s a link where you can get “Making Sense of Syllables”.